Bharti Kher exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, New York

Sperm-shaped bindis adorn a staircase salvaged from a house in India in 'A line through space and time' (detail), 2011, by Bharti Kher

The 17-ft piece evokes the classical architecture in an Indian home and, leading nowhere, the confinement of domesticity in this space

'The hot winds that blow from the West', 2011, comprises 131 old radiators sourced from the US, which are now rusted and obsolete, stripped of their utilitarian function, evoking the sense of the west’s glorious yesteryear and declining future as a region of innovation and power

The artwork takes its name from what is called the Loo: a fierce and dry afternoon wind that blows over northern and parts of western India on summer days

'A view of the forest', 2012, comprises hundreds of overlapping bindis in various shades of earthy greens

On close inspection, it is an abstracted landscape of the very scene the title describes, while, from afar, it is an elegantly dizzying pattern

Upstairs, a gallery is filled, salon-style, with gilded mirrors that are striped with bindis and cracked violently yet elegantly. In the cracked reflection, viewers are incorporated into the work, titled ‘Reveal the secrets that you keep’, 2011 (detail view)

Kher's figurative piece, ‘The Messenger’, 2011, is a recent development in her practice. Nude and without bindi embellishments, the fibreglass hybrid figure is part female, part mythological figure

It evokes the Hindu goddess Dakini, who is said to be an agent for revelation and transformation